Paragon is a gorgeous, third-person action game with rich layers of strategy. It’s also a MOBA. Did I lose you already? Do you get anxious around that word? Don’t. In fact, forget I said it. Let’s look at the basics, instead: Paragon is a competitive game with two teams of five. Each team tries to…
Game developers weigh in on VR input I recently had the chance to attend Valve’s Steam VR Developer Showcase and had a great time trying out a dozen VR demos (you can read about the games here). It was the first developer-focused event that I’ve attended that showed a wide assortment of games that used…
Top Deal: We’re less than two months into 2016 and it’s already shaping up to be an exciting year. Part of the reason is because of VR—Oculus and HTC both have VR headsets hitting the streets real soon, and you can bet others will follow suit. Can your PC handle VR? If you’re rocking an…
Two-Bay NAS Box At minimum, anyone who can’t afford to lose their files should have a Network Attached Storage (NAS) box of some sort. There’s no shortage of options out there, one of the newest being Western Digital’s My Cloud EX2 Ultra, a high-performance, two-bay NAS for the prosumer crowd. The Ultra model’s been upgraded…
Straight to multiplayer If you don’t give a rat’s behind about single player campaigns and just want to shoot your friends in a virtual environment, Activision has a proposition for you—buy just the multiplayer portion of Call of Duty: Black Ops III and you’ll pay a reduced rate. The Call of Duty: Black Ops III…
Big capacity in a little stick Toshiba’s proud as a peacock about its new SG5 series of consumer focused solid state drives. Why? The SG5 series is Toshiba’s first client SATA SSD to support a 1TB capacity in an M.2 form factor. That’s not the only capacity available—the SG5 series will also be available in…
Hello PlayStation Nation! The dev team here at our Osaka HQ and I are very happy to update our fans with the latest news for The King of Fighters XIV — just before the next showing at the PlayStation booth in C3 Show, Hong Kong. The King of Fighters XIV will feature a huge roster…
We’re back with another free multiplayer weekend in time for the launch of Street Fighter V — the latest chapter of the legendary fighting franchise and a console exclusive on PS4. Starting this Friday, you’ll be able to access the online multiplayer modes in any PS4 game without a PlayStation Plus subscription. This is also…
Last September we put a call out to PS4 owners to test out our next system software update and since we’re getting close to the release of our next update for PS4, we wanted to do it again! Starting today you can sign up to be a beta tester and get a sneak peek at…
Stuff to build stuff One of the great things about working at Maximum PC is that I’m always building things. And by things, I mean PCs. Like many people, I enjoy working with my hands and doing projects myself, as long as I have the appropriate hardware and tools at my disposal. I have a…